BYC gardening thread!!

[hennible]

Here is my high tech sprinkler proof beer trap... Bye bye slugs

 

[lazy gardener]

He does look like Elvis. wonder if he likes PB and banana sandwiches?

 

[Bugseye]

Oh, the R and D that went into that slug trap!!! Who invested? (sarcasm--hope you don't mind) I thought the opening had to be level with the ground. Not so?

 

[Kraftcrazychick]

I'm getting a little concerned with my garden. It's not super exciting and amazing yet. I trimmed my tomatoes up but I'm still not seeing any fruit any only minimal flowering. These were the tomatoes I started indoors so I thought I would have a leg up on them. Oddly, the ones I gave to a guy at work told me his were already starting to bear fruit. I know it's been very rainy but come on little plants, I want tomatoes.

Also, my green beans have grown taller than my fence they are climbing on. I tried bending it back down and weaving it through but it decided it's growing up again. What can I do? The fence is wire with 2 x 4 openings.

 

[hennible]

Maybe the tomatoes need some food... Less nitrogen more something else... Not sure...
You just need a talker support for your beans, there's alway next year right, they will still produce bent over. My scarlet runners are 8 feet tall, they hit the ceiling in the greenhouse...

 

[lazy gardener]

Pole beans are little seeds with huge egos! They'll climb to the top of what ever you give them, and then... they'll keep on climbing, twining around each other in an effort to get even higher. I grow mine on an old swing set, planting a row at the base of each set of legs, and tying twine across a wire stretched between the legs. It works real well. You don't want them to climb any higher than you can safely reach, anyways!

 

[Bugseye]

What I've done for years (seems to work) is give the tomatoes a flower food fertilizer--something with a lot less nitrogen and more phosphorous and potassium. They're currently getting a 4-10-7 and blossoming abundantly.

 

[hippiestink]

Where do you live? Depending on your soil content it can be many things effecting the tomatoes. Could be calcium deficiency, phosphorus, magnesium, nitrogen.

 

[Kraftcrazychick]

I'm in zone 5 and in a very clay rich soil. I bought soil this year and mixed in garden soil so this is a new 'batch' of soil. Last year I planted right in the ground mixed with garden soil and had a handful of cherry tomatoes from a started plant. I'm not sure how it could be much different since the soil is from the same region. Maybe the garden to top soil ratio as I didn't really measure. And I believe I bought the same type of seeds to start.... a yellow hybrid cherry tomato VF 100- I think. I

guess I will try some food as it gets plenty of light and water.

My super bean plant is probably close to 6 + feet. I will keep trying to train it to go on the fencing. The other ones are behind it in height but one has at least three vines working it's way around the fencing.

 

[hippiestink]

I use a compost "tea" of eggshell, coffee grounds, chicken blood, and cheap beer on mine. Mine are growing out of control and are already six feet tall and putting out flowers. And determinate tomatoes are supposed to stay small? Coulda fooled me!